Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.